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Release candidate testing takes too long. 

For many agile teams, this is the single biggest challenge. Legacy applications start with a test window longer than the sprint. This happens over and over again with clients and colleagues working on large, integrated websites and applications. 

But what if you didn’t need a human to look at a specific, numbered build to manage risk before deploy? Instead, what if a bot told the team the build was ready, and all someone had to do was click the deploy button? 

Getting there would take some infrastructure and discipline. It might not be possible for you, but there are organizations that do this every day. 

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